rant · moment 11 of 21
The Ron Bennington Turducken Script Pitch Story
from 2017, A Year Of Love And Peace · #76
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minRay recounts an embarrassing early-career story of driving to meet radio host Ron Bennington at a Thanksgiving event hoping to pitch him a mafia script he'd written, with Tim mercilessly picking apart how transparently thirsty and awkward the pitch attempt was.
- 27:06Tim explains his weird feeling about people with childlike obsessions over meeting famous people.
- 27:44Story: Tim and a friend went to Ron Bennington's Thanksgiving turducken event years ago with a script idea.
- 28:05They brought a script and asked Ron to maybe play a part in it.
- 28:44Tim was working at a camera store at the time, making minimal money and trying to get Ron into his film.
- 29:13Tim tried to convey to Ron how much he meant to him, which felt gross and performative in the moment.
- 29:49Ron was savvy enough to sense what Tim was doing from a mile away.
- 30:14Tim's script involved a mob boss and a pizzeria, possibly for Ron to star in.
- 30:44Tim tried pitching the same idea to multiple famous people, just asking them to be in his movie.
- 31:21No one approached Tim professionally—he was the one approaching them, which he sees as a mark of his effort and work.
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